Where do I begin?
The New Year is a time for fresh starts and new beginning.
I am setting my sights on new horizons – both figuratively and literally. Beginning again.
Here are some things I am doing that feel like steps in new directions - new horizons.
Organizing, cleaning out my studio – culling out old books, yarns, textiles, equipment and materials that no longer serve me. Organizing materials that serve my current creative drive.
Building a dye lab in my basement (with the help of my wonderful husband!). Preparing this space for working with natural and fiber reactive dyes, rusting and printing on my handwoven linen in colder seasons.
Since I cannot travel to new horizons this year – I am pushing the horizons of my small corner of this planet. I have taken up winter swimming! I don’t go in for long and I wear a wet suit with all the extra gear. But I love to thrill of immersing myself in frigid salt water.
And the new horizon – a piece I just finished ~ 9 feet wide by 15 inches tall. Indigo dyed linen in a mindfully warped progression from sea to sky. Woven with a monofilament weft. Professional images to come soon!
Wide Horizon (working title)
Check out the video I posted of it on FB.
In closing here is a poem by Richard Blanco - former poet Laureate.
It’s about beginnings and endings. I urge to you to make the time to read it….let me now what you think.